Zanni
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Zanni, term used to describe collectively the servant masks of the
commedia dell' arte; the equivalent English term is zany. Among them are
Arlecchino,
Pantalone, and (later) Columbina, the prototypes of the English
pantomime players
Harlequin,
Pantaloon, and
Columbine. The English
Punch, known in France as
Polichinelle, also derives from a zany,
Pulcinella, as do three famous French comic characters, Scapin, Scaramouche, and Pasquin—from
Scapino,
Scaramuccia, and
Pasquino respectively. In France,
Pedrolino became a sad, solitary
Pierrot, and in England a gregarious member of a seaside concert party. Other minor
zanni included
Brighella and
Mezzetino. In Elizabethan times the word zany conveyed the idea of a ‘clumsy imitator’.
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 10/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...stunningly intact including the early Christian graffiti. The hypostyle hall a forest of massive stone pillars has an intact roof...and Notre Dame cathedrals could be lost in it. The Great Hypostyle Hall with its 134 columns is still the largest room of any...
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Newspaper article from: Evening Times; 11/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Scotland Housing Association, Tay Homes, architects CZWG and Hypostyle - has come up with a scheme called The Inhabited Park. It...quieter, cleaner environment. Architect Gerry Henaughen of Hypostyle said: "In that area the Clyde is absolutely beautiful and...
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Hit list
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 3/25/2000; ; 700+ words
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Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...represent an architectural type, such as the basilica or the hypostyle hall. These headings rather represent religious and secular...monumental types. For example, early mosques were generally vast hypostyle halls; medieval mosques often employed the iwan plan; while...
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Mosques: Cultural Representatives of Bygone Era.
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 11/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...In places like Damascus, Kairouan, Cordoba, wherever hypostyle halls had been the style, it was easier to convert these...than create entirely new structures," says the author. A hypostyle hall is a hall or other large space with a roof supported...
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A Towering Tribute to the Gods.
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 11/26/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...its houses of eternity, became a symbol of civilization's achievements, while bearing the poignant message that even the greatest empires one day fall. CAPTION(S): Karnak's Great Hypostyle Hall, built more than 3,000 year ago
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Test of Time: 70 years of the Saltire Housing Awards
Magazine article from: The Architects' Journal; 9/6/2007; ; 700+ words
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Pyramid selling; Children and ancient culture really can mix in Egypt - with the right guides.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 1/24/2003; ; 700+ words
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Gaudi's architecture: a poetic form.(Antoni Gaudi)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...between 1900 and 1914). Through two iron gates we enter into a magical garden where a grand stairway leads us to a large hypostyle hall. This hall supports a large upper plaza delimited by a continuous balustrade bench that twists in a serpentine manner...
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Egypt's ancient wonders: from Alexandria to Abu Simbel, Cairo to the Colossi of Memnon, the Great Pyramid to the Temples of Philae--ever since the camera was invented, people have taken photographs of the splendours of Egypt: Charlie Furniss presents some of the earliest examples from the archives of the Royal Geographical Society.(Geographical Archive)
Magazine article from: Geographical; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...frescoes are displayed behind glass screens in all their former, multicoloured glory. And at Karnak, the columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall now stand perfectly upright, with their aisles cleared of the debris that had collected there for thousands of years...
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hypostyle
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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hypostyle hall
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
hypostyle hall. Large room with a flat roof carried on many columns in rows, the middle rows often having taller columns to accommodate...
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Egyptian architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...open colonnaded courtyard was the great hypostyle hall with immense columns arranged in...for the admission of light. Behind the hypostyle hall were small sanctuaries, where only...additions; the central columns of its hypostyle hall are the largest known. In the temples...
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Karnak
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...obelisk that stands 97 feet tall and weighs 323 tons. The Great Hypostyle Hall, one of the largest single chambers ever built, covers...old gods, including Amon-Ra. Construction on the Great Hypostyle Hall was begun during the reign of Ramses I (reigned 1320...
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temple
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...by a colonnaded passage. Beyond the court lay the majestic hypostyle hall and a variety of chambers preceding and surrounding the...monarchs and priests had access to the chambers beyond the hypostyle hall. The New Kingdom was the most active period of temple...
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